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Subject: IDT NICSTAR based Adapter
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From: Yoshihiko Takeda <takeda@rdd.soliton.co.jp>
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Dear Sirs:

I have a interest about ATM on FreeBSD.
Now we are making a product,IDT NICSTAR based PCI ATM Adapter(155M,Fiber)
and I would like to support this adapter on FreeBSD.

If anyone is working on IDT's alreday,I would like to join your project.

Please let me know your status.

# We are Japanese network vender.

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Yoshihiko Takeda, takeda@rdd.soliton.co.jp
  R&D Dept. Soliton Systems K.K.
  2-4-3 Shinjyuku Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo,JAPAN
  Phone +81-35360-3830, Fax +81-33356-6890
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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org, takeda@rdd.soliton.co.jp
Subject: Re: IDT NICSTAR based Adapter
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Pat Barron <pat@transarc.com> sold me on the IDT adapter. He already
has a 25 Mbps adapter. I have 2 IDT 155 Mbps NICSTAR UTP adapters on back order
with a delivery date expected to be the first week of August. For those in the
market the 155 Mbps IDT adapter are priced around $400-450 US. 

These evaluation boards use onboard SRAM for session table lookups only,
and the PDU reconstruction is done in the host memory using DMA. I am hoping to
reuse the PDU buffers as external mbufs to avoid the cost data copy.

I have read the "IDT77201 NICSTAR (tm) User Manual" 
ftp://ftp.idt.com/pub/docs/3488.pdf a few times but have not started to
code. This document requires a real Adobe Acrobat viewer, and not the xpdf.
I converted the document to postscript if this would help anyone
(ftp://joy.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/local/3488.ps). This is 140+ pages and the
postscript is not viewable from ghostview :(.

--mark.